“Southern Baptist Convention To Officially Affirm Marxist Critical Theory as Viable” read the headline at Reformation Charlotte.
“The Southern Baptist Convention is gone. It is not, at this point, salvageable. It is time to start pleading with any churches that remain in the convention to come out,” wrote author Jeff Maples. The Southern Baptist Convention brought around 8,000 Southern Baptist messengers to Birmingham June 11-12.

Maples said that “Every year, the convention proposes resolutions to “repent” of racism, and they always pass. This year, however, the convention took an unprecedented step in not only guilting every white member on implicit racism but to affirm the Marxist ideology known as Critical Race Theory. Critical Race Theory (CRT) emerged as an offshoot of Critical Theory, a neo-Marxist philosophy that has its roots in the Frankfurt School and its methods are drawn from Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud.”

Maples continued that, “CRT teaches that institutional racism exists within every structure of society and that these structures are intrinsically designed in such a manner as to protect and preserve “white supremacy” in our culture. Further, CRT does not rely on factual statistics or objective evidence to support the theory, rather it relies on anecdotal evidence and personal experience. The Capstone Report reports that concerns that J.D. Greear’s appointments to the 2019 Resolution’s Committee would promote Social Justice were well founded. The Resolution’s Committee report offers a resolution that promotes Intersectionality and Critical Race Theory.”

That the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has taken this route shouldn’t really surprise anyone though. Recently the SBC leadership has changed it’s traditional stance and trained women to function as elders in the church, performed rock music skits before their members, lauded LBGTQ activists, defended transvestites as normal behavior and more.

There have been concerns since J.D. Greer’s appointment to the 2019 Resolution’s Committee that he would promote the Marxist Critical Race Theory’s “Social Justice” was well founded. The Resolution’s Committee report offered a resolution that promotes Intersectionality and Critical Race Theory.

Put forward was “Resolution 9 – ON CRITICAL RACE THEORY AND INTERSECTIONALITY, “WHEREAS, Critical race theory and intersectionality alone are insufficient to diagnose and redress the root causes of the social ills that they identify, which result from sin, yet these analytical tools can aid in evaluating a variety of human experiences.””
Resolution 9 was then found in the Resolved section, “RESOLVED, That critical race theory and intersectionality should only be employed as analytical tools subordinate to Scripture—not as transcendent ideological frameworks,” the resolution declares.”

The SBC then amended their constitution to enforce churches to implement Resolution 9 to be compliant or face excommunication from fellowship in the convention.
Southern Baptist pastor Dr. Tom Ascol, of Grace Baptist Church in Cape Coral, Florida, commented that the resolutions are not in accord with God’s Word. He continued that “If the chirpings and mutterings that derive from various aspects of intersectionality, radical feminism, and critical race theory do not accord with God’s written Word, then they are to be dismissed as having no light in them. The Apostle Paul applies this prophetic assessment when he writes, “See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.” Ascol continued that “these philosophies, if left unchecked, will undermine the gospel of Christ and lead people away from Him.”

Finally, Dr. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky recently wrote, “The embrace of identity politics and intersectionality has devastating consequences on American public life. This political theory magnifies differences and places greater value on individuals who can combine the highest number of benighted and neglected identities. Virtue and the worth of your opinion hinges on what makes you different. Thus, Democrats push their party into identity idolatry—the candidates who can claim as part of their heritage the greatest number of oppressed identities bears more influence and is entitled to speak (or to run for president). Woe unto the lone Democratic presidential candidate with the sign draped around his neck at the first presidential debate among Democrats fighting for the nomination: ‘White heterosexual male.’”

By Michael Reed